Bio

Richard K. Gallup is currently working as Live Producer for Disruptor Beam and he is also a producer and founder of SummerCamp Games. He is the former Lead Producer for Massachusetts-based MMO-developer 38 Studios, having left his successful and popular position as Features Producer at GameSpot, in order to return to the East Coast with his wife. On May 24th, 2012, 38 Studios ultimately laid off all employees as it was going through a financial crisis, including Rich Gallup. He has since co-founded Summer Camp Studios along side colleagues from 38 Studios, which lead to the creation of Fart Cat! on iOS.

During his tenure at GameSpot, Rich produced several successful regular shows. Notable among them are GameSpotting, Button Mashing - a round-based game show where three competitors get narrowed down to two until eventually only one is left to face off with a GameSpot staffer, On the Spot - a weekly live show created and hosted by Rich (Alongside Ryan MacDonald and later Jeff Gerstmann), and The HotSpot - a podcast covering "all the hot topics from the world of video games".

Rich began his tenure at GameSpot as a GameSpot Live intern, impressing the team enough to land a staff job later. Prior to this, he worked as a QA Tester for THQ.

Whilst attending Middlebury College, Rich - along with friend and classmate Ben Coello - created, wrote, and starred in "The Ben and Rich Comedy Show", a loosely plot-based sketch show which lasted 3 episodes. The pair submitted it as their independent study project. Rich also created "<<" or "Rewind", a short film which reached the final in Nintendo'sEternal Darkness Film competition.

Rich currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, but often visits his family in New Hampshire, his home state. Since joining 38 Studios he has lived a relatively anonymous life, away from the constant scrutiny of his previous life in front of a camera sending footage straight onto the internet. According to Jeff Gerstmann, Rich is very happy to have some privacy back. This Wiki Page being a not-so-minor exception.

Doofycrap.com

Following his time at GameSpot, Rich started a "blournal" that can be found at www.doofycrap.com.

The first post on December 10, 2007, stated: "Once upon a time, the world needed a place like doofycrap.com. Now everybody calls it YouTube. Or Wikipedia. Or simply, “the internet.” Stay tuned…"

The site was built as a blog, but was characterized by (usually) daily updates that journaled some of the things that became famous on, and mostly because of, the Internet and its users. It is described by Rich, himself, here. Many of the posts contained research into some of the most infamous Internet phenomenons, such as: The Exploding Whale, Gino!, the Hampster Dance, or the WOO-WOO whistle tip guy. Other such posts included mostly viral video's and their origins, but also encouraged reader participation, such as a search for the hardest working Hollywood bit player, which started with a post about Al Kaplon.

Doofycrap.com's most current post was made on May 19, 2008, letting readers know that the site was going to take a "short break", and encouraged them to "stay tuned." No further updates have been made since, and it would seem as though Rich has become too busy with his current work schedule to keep the site current.

The Eyebrow

Rich has a scar on his left eyebrow. The scar developed during puberty when, as Gallup explains, his body thought a mole had developed and tried to bleach it out. However, there was no mole, leaving a bleached patch of skin. This was unfortunate because he got his bleached eyebrow at the same time Vanilla Ice shaved eyebrows were becoming popular.

Fun Facts

He has an unhealthy addiction to Fluff, and, according to his profile page at 38 Studios, spends his spare time trying to make the fluffernutter, a sandwich consisting of Fluff and peanut butter, the official sandwich of Massachusetts.

He coined the term "ish-dition" to describe installments of the HotSpot after being unable to reconcile his desire to use both the words "issue" and "edition" to label the weekly episodes of the popular podcast.

Culled from his experience in college radio, Gallup hosted most episodes of the HotSpot while standing up. According to him, it keeps a lively flow and energy in leading an audio conversation show's various discussions.Jeff Gerstmann begrudgingly emulated this stance when filling in for Rich as host.

He has a fear of needles and zombies.

Has an extreme aversion to ketchup.

He is also claustrophobic, and once almost punched through a door when locked in a small room by college friend and classmate Ben Coello.

He has nicknamed his home state "New Hampshizzle."

He makes instant Macaroni & Cheese with ice cream instead of milk.

Also, he has his own special Mac & Cheese recipe that uses Tabasco sauce and garlic powder.

He thinks this page is "creepy," but strongly encourages users to keep making it even creepier.

His mom watches this page and tells him whenever something new is added.

He has incredible urges to give nipple twists whenever he hears someone curse.

He once attended a taping of Jeopardy to see his high school friend and Granite State Challenge teammate Ryan Friedman compete. In the Q&A session before the show, he'd asked show host Alex Trebek if he had any advice for aspiring game show hosts. Trebek promptly discouraged the idea of even having such aspirations. Unbeknown to Mr. Trebek, Gallup was host of his own internet game show "Button Mashing" at the time. Ryan won that episode of Jeopardy. Sadly, Gallup was unable to see the actual day-two taping of the show.

He attended Middlebury College, which instilled in him a love of Liberal Arts educations. It also made him unbearable.

As explained at PAX08, Rich's staunch "No cursing" policy on his podcast stems from his college days, where he learned that not cursing led to instant credibility.

He played "Rich Gallup, Grizzled Police Chief" in the award winning and mega-popular animated pilot webisode of "Time Trotters: The Animated Series." He had a similar role in the earlier Live Action "GameSpotting Live" episode using the same (Time Trotters) format.

He is much beloved as one of the finest media hosts in the history of the internet (Which explains the detail of this page, and has caused untold thousands of internet users to lament the lack of opportunities for Rich to host A/V content in his current position).

He prefers cats to dogs.

He once said that the movie The Big Hit is trash, which led Jeff Gerstmann to say he is trash. Rich then quickly pointed out that by being trash, he would know what is trash.

He once hit himself in the face with his own microphone after shaking someone's hand, which prompted Jeff Gerstmann to say, "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT GIVING RESPECT!"

He reckons that Raphael (who is cool but rude) is the best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

His mom's birthday is May 23rd.

He has seen 94 episodes of the Persona 4 Endurance Run starting with episode 50

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